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Comment by zwnow | Hacker News Reader

I am a solo dev for my company which is a semi profitable startup. Before I was hired the codebase was built by a hobbyist and remote workers. I was hired due to a language barrier with the remote staff. I barely have 4 years of experience so I really really dont have the time to fix shit. Currently I have to ship reckless without looking back. Thats upcoming tech companies for ya, will get worse with AI.

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    > I barely have 4 years of experience so I really really dont have the time to fix shit.

I am confused. In my first few years of my career, I did lots of refactoring because it helped me to learn different codebases and learn the skill of refactoring. Your experience is somewhat unrelated to your ability to fix old code. Desire is required.

Expecting a developer with 4 YoE to be able to handle a messy legacy codebase by themselves is a suboptimal business decision I’d say.

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